If you want to get rid of the layers you'll have to cut out the cake, or most of it, anyway.

Must I make you a diagram, or is this plain enough for your understanding ?" It was--abundantly.

But I still had one more bright little idea waiting in the second-line trenches.

I called up the reserves.
"Ahem!" I said.

"Well now, old man, how about trying some of these electrical treatments or these chemicalized baths or these remedies I see advertised?
I was reading only the other day where one successful operator promised on his word of honor to take off flesh for anybody, no matter who it was, without interfering with that person's table habits and customs." My friend can be very plain-spoken when the spirit moves him.
[Illustration: "YOU ARE NOW REGISTERING THE PRELIMINARY WARNINGS--" _Page 87_] "Say, listen to me," he snapped, "or better still, you'd better write down what I'm about to say and stick it in your hat where you can find it and consult it when your mind begins wandering again.